The Warning
For love—I would
split open your head and put
a candle in
behind the eyes.
Love is dead in us
if we forget
the virtues of an amulet
and quick surprise.
Copyright Credit: Robert Creeley, “The Warning” from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975. Copyright © 1992 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted with the permission of the University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu. Permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975
(University of California Press
, 2006)